Tuesday, January 5, 2016

SAN
DIEGO — California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR)
officials are looking for two women who walked away from the Custody to
Community Transitional Reentry Program (CCTRP) in San Diego.

Tumoi King

Tumoi
King and Viviana Mendez had been participating in the CCTRP, which allows
eligible participants to serve the remainder of their sentence in a community
program in lieu of confinement in state prison. The CCTRP provides a range of
rehabilitative services that assist with alcohol and drug recovery, employment,
education, housing, family reunification and social support.

CCTRP
staff was alerted at 7:31 p.m. Monday, Jan. 4, that King and Mendez had removed
their ankle monitors, and a facility-wide search for the women was immediately
conducted. All local law enforcement agencies have been notified and are
assisting in the search and apprehension efforts.

Viviana Mendez

King,
28, is a black female, 5 feet, 10 inches tall, weighing 175 pounds with black
hair and brown eyes. She was received by CDCR on Feb. 19, 2014, to serve five
years for a second-degree robbery conviction in Riverside County. She has been
participating in CCTRP since November 2014. She was scheduled to be paroled in
October 2016.

Mendez,
20, is a Hispanic female, 5 feet, 2 inches tall, weighing 190 pounds with brown
hair and brown eyes. She was received by CDCR on Oct. 1, 2014, to serve a
seven-year sentence for an assault with a deadly weapon conviction in Yolo
County. She had been participating in CCTRP since September 2015. She was
scheduled to be paroled in February 2017.

Anyone
with information regarding either of these women is asked to call (916)
464-4169 or local law enforcement.